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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS?
Date: 20 Jul 1995 10:35:14 +0200
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Joseph R.M. Zbiciak <im14u2c@millenium.texas.net> wrote:
>... (Moreso RAM than anything.) When you buy
>into a Sun or an HP or an SGI, etc, you know you're getting a good
>motherboard, a good SCSI controller, a good ethernet interface, etc. When
>you buy into a PC, there's too many variables.
Just my very personal opinion, based on experience:
If you buy an SGI, you get a crappy and bloated o/s, that won't let
you run true multi-user (at least not on the cheaper Indy). I would
give the hell to get a NetBSD for it! It's running side-by-side with
an i586/90 machine (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1), both 64 MB RAM, and the FreeBSD
box is orders of magnitude more stable than the IRIX machine. As soon
as you've got more than one user, the SGI sucks even though it's got
in theory a faster CPU (MIPS R4400 15 MHz), and regardless of the fact
that i've dedicated 60 % of the i586's RAM for the file system buffer
cache, since the main purpose of that machine is to act as an NFS
server.
Needless to say, we've spent a bit more of money than the casual `home
computer' user to get no crap for the i586.
Maybe a Sun (but not with Slowlaris) or an HP, but i would absolutely
not recommend SGI to anybody any more!
Btw., the shortest time between crashes on an SGI has been < 1 hour.
And the system requires manual intervention to reboot. We had to
reinstall it already twice after such reboots due to the flakey file
system safety. The i586 runs for 40+ days now, and there are
currently only two show-stopper bugs that i know of, but that can be
worked around well. Unlike all other Unix machines in our office,
FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 does also survive the frightening "fork trap".
Do you need more information? :-]
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)